Patron saint festival In 280 days
Feast of Saint Mary Magdalene
📅 Every year, on 22 July
On 22 July Cremosano, a municipality of 1,580 inhabitants in the province of Cremona, celebrates its patroness Saint Mary Magdalene (santa Maria Maddalena).
The monastery that gave rise to Cremosano is still there, but families live inside it. Around the year 1000 the Benedictine monks, exploring the marshes of the Moso, found a fertile patch, drained it and built a monastery there; in time it became a stopping place for the merchants coming up from the south towards Milan. Later it was converted into a farmstead, and today it can be seen along the provincial road that crosses the village: it is a house in which several families live.
Something of those monks survives in the coat of arms too. In the first half there is a mount of six hills with the word PAX above it and a Calvary cross: it is the Benedictine emblem, and it says where the village came from. In the second there is an ox grazing on a green field, and it says what the village lived on. In between, history brought the plague twice: once around 1200 and again in the seventeenth century; at the end of the latter a chapel was built where the survivors prayed for the sick to be saved.
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Castello Visconteo 📍 Voghera · 7.0 km The fourteenth-century Visconti castle in Voghera, long a prison, with frescoes of the Muses attributed to Bramantino. Chiesa di Santa Maria delle Grazie 📍 Voghera · 7.4 km The Lombard Gothic church of the Dominicans in Voghera, with fifteen rosary chapels, now Franciscan. Chiesa di San Luca 📍 Pavia · 20 km Church in Pavia of 1586-1609 on the Via Francigena, its façade turned north towards the pilgrims. Chiesa dei Santi Primo e Feliciano 📍 Pavia · 21 km Twelfth-century Romanesque church in Pavia, with its original façade and Agostino da Vaprio's 1498 triptych. Torre civica di Pavia 📍 Pavia · 21 km Eleventh-century tower of Pavia, which collapsed on 17 March 1989: ruins and a 2014 memorial remain. Chiesa di San Francesco 📍 Pavia · 21 km Franciscan church in Pavia with a two-tone Gothic façade and double portal, a Visconti burial site.